Summer is road trip season in America: Three-quarters of American families plan to travel by car to a vacation spot this summer. Add in the extra heat and that means summer is a busy season for AAA, which expects to help 7 million drivers. Most summer road trip breakdowns aren’t inevitable, though, and there’s plenty that motorists can do to reduce their risk of having to call for help.

AAA’s most common issues in summer

Dead batteries

22%

Flat tires

14%

Lockouts

14%

Combined, these three issues accounted for

more than 3.6 million

calls for Roadside Assistance in summer 2016

Think of “summer car breakdown” and your mind might jump to the image of steam spilling out from under a hood. While engine overheating is a real concern in hot weather, the majority of the issues AAA sees in summer are the same ones it sees year-round. In the summer of 2016, AAA received 1.6 million calls to jump or replace batteries, 1 million for flat tires, and 1 million for lockouts.